Wellness Resources

Wellness Committee

The Hammond Central School Wellness Committee is composed of faculty, staff, students and community members who are excited and motivated to promote a healthy environment for our school community. As a committee and district we understand the importance of personal wellness; physically, socially and emotionally. We aim to support and build healthy activity and nutrition habits for our school community in the hopes that these fundamentals will stay with our students as they grow and then graduate beyond our walls.

Our Wellness Committee works in conjunction with the Health Initiative as a part of the Creating Healthy Schools and Communities Grant to build and sustain a culture of wellness through district wellness policy updates, professional development, regularly assessing student and school community needs and gaining access to grant funded resources. The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 requires that a wellness committee be formed at the district level and include representation from our school building. The committee is responsible for establishing the framework for the content of the local school wellness policies, ensuring stakeholder participation in the development of such policies, and requires the periodic assessment of compliance and reporting on the progress toward achieving the goals of the local school wellness policy.

You are invited to join the Wellness Committee. School faculty and staff, families, students, and community members wanted! Healthy students are more likely to succeed in school now and to develop healthy habits that last a lifetime. The wellness committee works to update the school wellness policy and put it into action. We are partnering with the Health Initiative's Creating Healthy School and Communities project (funded by the NYS Dept of Health) to support: local school wellness policies, physical activity opportunities. Nurtrition Standards & Healthy Food Access. To Learn More or Get Involved: Lauren Morley, Superintendent & Committee Chair. lmorley@hammondk12.ord, 315-324-5931

CHSC Schools Overview Two Sided

Hammond LWP Annual Progress Assessment - 2022

HCS_NYS Wellness Policy Assessment Tool_ HI CHSC_ Fillable (1)

Hammond LWP Annual Progress Assessment - 2024

NYS Wellness Policy Assessment Tool - Hammond 2024-2025 Update

Local School Wellness Policy Annual Progress Report

School District: Hammond Central School

School Buildings: 2022-23

School Year: Fall 2022

Date Report Completed: Fall 2022

1. Wellness policy

Web address to access the wellness policy: Hammond Wellness Policy - Policy # 5661

Other ways to access the policy (Hammond Website Wellness Resources Tab): Wellness Resources - Hammond Central Webpage

2. Wellness policy triennial assessment

Date of most recent assessment: 2021-22 School Year

Web address to access the assessment: Hammond LWP Annual Progress Wellness Assessment - 2022

Date of next planned assessment: 2024-25 School Year

3. Summary of progress in meeting policy goals

The Hammond Central School Wellness Committee has been reinvigorated during the 2021-2022 school year and continues its important work into the 2022-2023 year. The committee is composed of faculty, staff, students and community members who are excited and motivated to promote a healthy environment for our school community. As a committee and district we understand the importance of personal wellness; physically, socially and emotionally. We aim to support and build healthy activity and nutrition habits for our school community in the hopes that these fundamentals will stay with our students as they grow and then graduate beyond our walls.

Our Wellness Committee works in conjunction with the Health Initiative as a part of the Creating Healthy Schools and Communities Grant to build and sustain a culture of wellness through district wellness policy updates, professional development, regularly assessing student and school community needs and gaining access to grant funded resources. The Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 requires that a wellness committee be formed at the district level and include representation from our school building. The committee is responsible for establishing the framework for the content of the local school wellness policies, ensuring stakeholder participation in the development of such policies, and requires the periodic assessment of compliance and reporting on the progress toward achieving the goals of the local school wellness policy.

4. Summary of future plans to meet wellness policy goals